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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Drupal has a great reputation for being
a robust CMS. Many global businesses trust Drupal for their online
businesses and ecommerce functionality. For those looking for
ready-made designs, great looking themes for Drupal are often hard to
find, and ecommerce themes are even fewer in numbers. With the
release of Drupal 7 last year, developers have had to wait until
extensions and themes to be upgraded from Drupal 6. A lot of progress
has been made in this area, although are only a few Ecommerce themes
are ready for Drupal 7. The following are some Ecommerce themes that
are compatible with Drupal 7.

Metropolis

Metropolis
is a free and very simple theme, which supports IE6. It is suitable
for all types of sites from personal to business and ecommerce sites.
It supports tableless layouts, Superfish dropdown menus and custom
login and logouts. At the last count it has had 1,299 downloads. This
theme is best if you are looking for a very basic design.

IC3 Clean

IC3
Clean is another free theme from Litecommerce. It is a charming
and fresh 3-column tableless design. It is compatible with IE6,
Firefox 3.5, Chrome 10 browsers and above. It supports the
IC_connector module and includes a drop down menu. This is likely the
best choice among the free options.

Free Ecommerce Themes in Development

There are other free themes available,
although they are at various stages of development and have not
reached full release stage yet. These include

Acquia
Prosper, at development stage, AT
Commerce at release candidate stage and Black
Piano at beta release stage. It is worth keeping an eye on these,
as they are in active development and are likely to reach full
release for Drupal 7 in the near future.

Ecommerce Pro

Ecommerce
Pro is a theme from Themesnap offering 5 colors, social media
tabs, category featured products, homepage slideshow, and product
page slideshow. Product pages can show ratings and it is compatible
with IE6. This theme is updated every 2 months. This is a decent
ecommerce theme with a great set of features and is available for
$59.

Shoppica

Shoppica
is certainly the most feature rich and customizable ecommerce theme
for Drupal 7. Also from Themesnap, this theme offers infinite color
options, front page slider, and it built on the 960 grid framework.
Category pages can display slide shows. Grid products view can be
sorted by category e.g. price or model. It is also Jquery enhanced,
social media integrated and the list of features is very extensive.
This is also being offered for $59. If you are looking for the most
fully featured ecommerce theme for Drupal 7, Shoppica is the
definitely the one to go for.

This is a guest post by Mitchel Xavier who works as a Drupal
developer and creates Drupal website design and Drupal cms
solutions for businesses in Sydney Australia.

Drupal 7 modules and features are way ahead to what I have seen before. As Drupal is more than a CMS it provides a great solution to your businesses. It provides large degree of flexibility to share modify and distribute the context.

Looking for a excellent Drupal concept however is a time intensive and annoying action. As opposed to WordPress, there has only been few Drupal 7 styles to select from, but this is getting better as more and more styles get revealed.